Colloquium: Failure of molecules, bones, and the Earth itself

Materials fail by recurring rupture and shearing of interatomic bonds at microscopic, molecular scales, leading to disintegration of matter at macroscale and a loss of function. In this Colloquium, the state-of-the-art of investigations on failure mechanisms in materials are reviewed, in particular...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Keten, Sinan, Buehler, Markus J
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/58599
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4173-9659

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